ISBN:
0226002012
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9780226002019
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 183 pages, [10] pages of plates)
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DDC:
305.4'896914
Keywords:
Internally displaced persons
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Squatter settlements
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Squatters
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Women
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
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Internally displaced persons
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Social history
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Squatter settlements
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Squatters
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Women / Social conditions
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Displaced Person
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Sozialanthropologie
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Squattersiedlung
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Frau
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Frau
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Sozialgeschichte
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Squatter settlements
;
Squatters
;
Internally displaced persons
;
Women Social conditions
;
Displaced Person
;
Sozialanthropologie
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Soziale Situation
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Frau
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Sudan
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Sudan
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Frau
;
Displaced Person
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Soziale Situation
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Sozialanthropologie
Note:
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Introduction: through the eyes of the displaced -- Dissent historicized -- Becoming displaced -- Gendered rituals -- Negotiating peace -- Epilogue: "this is my country" -- Appendix A: primary informants -- Appendix B: camps and shantytowns in Greater Khartoum, Sudan -- Appendix C: profile of women in Izzbba
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Over twenty years of civil war in predominantly Christian Southern Sudan has forced countless people from their homes. Transforming Displaced Women in Sudan examines the lives of women who have forged a new community in a shantytown on the outskirts of Khartoum, the largely Muslim, heavily Arabized capital in the north of the country. Sudanese-born anthropologist Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf delivers a rich ethnography of this squatter settlement based on personal interviews with displaced women and careful observation of the various strategies they adopt to reconstruct their lives and
URL:
http://chicago.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.7208/chicago/9780226002019.001.0001/upso-9780226001999
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